Exploring lesser known History
The unity which Ramkrishna and Vivekananda established between ‘the one’ and ‘the many’ in the spiritual world, Deshbandhu achieved or at least tried to achieve in the life of the nation and in the political sphere.
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The lucrative Indo-American trade began about 1790 and fortunes were being made on both shores.
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It was an all-out devastating loss for the French in which only two ships out of thirteen managed to escape.
Less than a year after, Arthur Wellesley and his comrades stormed Srirangapatnam, putting an end to Tipu Sultan’s rule as well as his life.
Napoleon, meanwhile, recovered quickly from his defeat and went on to become the Emperor of France.
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This Letter was submitted to Sub-Committee on Minorities of the Constituent Assembly of India by Abdul Qaiyum Ansari on July 24, 1947
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‘I do not want that sort of Swaraj which will be for middle class alone. I want a Swaraj which will be for the masses,not for the classes. I don’t care for the bourgeoisie. How few are they? Swaraj must be for the masses and must be won for the masses’
C.R.Das
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As Urdu press celebrates its lowkey bicentenary this year,it is the perfect time to tribute those who laid its foundation : A Brahmin, a Sikh and their weekly paper ‘Jam-e-Jahan Numa’
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On the occasion of the birthday of Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar, the last ruler of the Mughal Dynasty, let us
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The Mughal Royals indulged in different cultures and traditions to maintain tranquillity across the country and participated in various festivals associated with all regional communities. They have addressed Diwali as Jashan-e-Chiraghan, Persian for ‘Festival of Lights’.
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The people of the Metibruz locality of Kolkata, that comprised migrants from different parts of Uttar Pradesh, chased a senior official of the King’s Court and his family out of the precinct in 1887. The reason being his association to Wajid Ali Shah’s death.
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Queen Elizabeth II, the monarch of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth realm, passed away yesterday on the 8th of September 2022, at 18:30 BST.
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An excerpt of an essay written by Rezaul Karim, a Bengali Indian Muslim Freedom fighter, who fought against the partition of India and wrote about Muslim casteism.
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Recalling the events that led to the meeting of the guardians of the Jamia Millia Islamia in Europe in 1925.
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If I tell you that the famous Urdu poet Allama Muhammad Iqbal was a supporter of Shaheed-e-Azam Bhagat Singh and fought a legal battle for the great Indian revolutionary will you believe ? You should. Because, it is true.
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Mirza Ismail, a Shia Muslim by faith, who was the Prime Minister of Mysore had spoken these words at the inauguration of Jamia Mosque, a Sunni mosque, in Bengaluru on 30 May 1941.
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He was a peculiar and a very special representative in a high degree of that great composite culture that has gradually grown in India. I do not mean to say that everybody has to be like Maulana Azad to represent that composite culture. There are many representatives of it in various parts of India, but he here in Delhi or in Bengal or Calcutta, wherever he spent the greater part of his life-represented this synthesis of various cultures which have come one after another to India, rivers that had flowed in and lost themselves in the ocean of Indian life, India’s humanity affecting them, changing them and being changed themselves by them.
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The situation at Dunkirk in 1940 was extremely out of bounds for the British Army. Hundreds of thousands of men struggled to escape France, as the Luftwaffe swirled overhead. The Germans had advanced with terrifying speed, covering over a hundred and twenty miles in just five days. The Germans were employing the technique of Blitzkrieg.
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People welcomed him, and his family, as a pilgrim coming back from one of the most sacred places of Islam. While in fact, he did not plan to visit Makkah and Medina.
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Following is an excerpt of the trial of Maulana Shaukat Ali at Karachi Court in September, 1929
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Stoke Row is a village close to Reading, in Oxfordshire. The village is noted for ‘The Maharaja’s Well’. There is a rather Interesting story behind the sinking of this famous Victorian well.
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The reasons that led to the Battle of Jamrud in 1837 of Afghanistan fought between the Sikhs and the Pashtuns.
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